Saturday, May 7, 2016

Eulalio Tordil, 62, a suspect in three fatal shootings in Maryland taken into custody

Federal Police officer with Homeland Eulalio Tordil, 62, arrested

2-day shooting spree in PG and Montgomery counties, suburban Maryland

Three people critically wounded 3 dead in three seperate shootingsEnstranged school teacher wife, Gladys Tordil, 44, one of the fatalities - her death witnessed by school age daughter Cops 'believe'Tordil is responsible for all shootings

Police arrest federal security officer suspected of embarking on shooting spree in Maryland, killing two people and injuring one - 24 hours after he gunned down his estranged wifeEulalio Tordil, 62, was arrested without incident Friday afternoon in the parking lot of a Dunkin' Donuts in Aspen Hill, Maryland
He had been on the run since Thursday afternoon, when he fatally shot his ex-wife and injured a bystander outside of a Beltsville high school in neighboring Prince Georges County.
Police say they have 'reason to believe' Tordil was responsible for two other shootings Friday morning in Maryland. The first shooting of Friday, happened at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda; a man was killed and two others injured in that shooting
Thirty minutes later, a woman was killed outside the Giant grocery store five miles away in Aspen Hill. Police later arrested Eulalio Tordil, 62, near the location of the third shooting outside a Dunkin' Donuts store in Aspen Hill, Maryland shortly before 3pm on Friday.
At an afternoon press conference, police said a plain clothes officer spotted Tordil's vehicle while searching the area around the third shooting scene Friday afternoon.

Police take Eulalio Tordil, 62, a suspect in three fatal shootings in the Washington, D.C., area into custody in Bethesda, Md., Friday, May 6, 2016.

Eulalio Tordil shot his wife, 44-year-old Gladys Tordil

That officer then saw a man matching Tordil's description inside a nearby Dunkin' Donuts. Police kept surveillance on the man until he exited the restaurant and they arrested him without incident as he returned to his car.
Police say they have 'reason to believe' that he was responsible for the shootings at Westfield Montgomery Mall and the Giant grocery store just across the street from where he was arrested in Aspen Hill.
Two people have died and two more are injured in both of those Friday shootings, bring the toatl number of fatalities to 3 in the two day shooting rampage. Other tha 44 year old Gladys Tordil, none of the victims have been identified.

Prince George's County Police DepartmentEulalio Tordil shot his wife, 44-year-old Gladys Tordil, to death on May 5, 2016, in the parking lot of High Point High School in Beltsville, Maryland.

McSwain added that investigators have "no reason to believe the victims knew the suspect."
Tordil, 62, was a federal security office, but was on leave from his job since March, when his estranged wife filed a restraining order against him. Eulalio Tordil 62, allegedly shot and killed his estranged wife and wounding a man on Thursday, outside a Beltsville, Md.

The scene of Friday's Maryland mall shooting.

The mall and the high school are approximately 12 miles apart.
Tordil is an employee of the Federal Protective Service, which offers security at federal properties.
The Federal Protective Service says Tordil was put on administrative duties in March after a protective order was issued against him.

Four people were shot at two locations in Montgomery County, Maryland on Friday, with two fatalities

The first happened Thursday at High Point High School in Beltsville. The next morning, a man was killed and two people injured at a shooting at the Westfield Mall. Thirty minutes later, a woman was killed in a shooting at the Giant grocery in Aspen HillsThe second shooting happened just before 11am on Friday, at the Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda. According the eports the gunman approached the woman who was walking into the Macy's at the Westfield mall with a gun and asked her where she was going. When she ignored him, he reached into his car and started shooting. Two men responded to her screams and were also shot by the suspect. All three were taken to the hospital in critical condition. One of the men later died.
Just 30 minutes later, officers were called to another shooting at the Giant grocery store five miles away in Aspen Hill, where a woman was killed. That woman was reportedly approached by a man who asked 'Is this your car?' who then opened fire.
A woman was approached going into the mall on Friday morning and shot by the gunman. Two men that ran to her aid were also shot. One of those men has since died and the other

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